Re: Administrator Can't Log on to Server

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From: Jeff Middleton [SBS-MVP] (jeff_at_cfisolutions.com)
Date: 03/10/05


Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:22:07 -0600

Hi Norm,

I apologize if you found it hard to locate me or thought I was unavailable.
It is 8am my time, and the last email I have from you I received 33 hrs ago
and I missed recognizing that it sought a reply. If you sent a more recent
email, I'm not aware of it.

It's unfortunate, but the time difference between us is 17 hrs., which means
that the last email I received was (according to the header) sent to me at
4:48 pm your time arrived to me at 10:48 pm my time.

I see that Frank has pointed you in the right direction on the logon
problem.

With regard to the email I received, I read through the attached DCdiag
output. The indication there is that you must have missed an object deletion
in the earlier Phase 2 steps. I think that object persisted into the Phase
3, and when the final server was added, the stale object caused the FRS
registration to fail.

You should contact me offline so that we can clarify where you are in the
process and what to do to pick back up with it.

-- 
Jeff Middleton SBS-MVP
YCST@SBSmigration.com
"N. Hughes" <quadrantcomputerNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23sL$exSJFHA.3832@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Last resort post before starting over...
> Was doing my first swing migration and thought I was going well - Jeff had
> been very helpful over ambiguities/typos in his documents. However, no
> offence to him, he's not around right now and I need to make a decision.
> Finished installing SBS, rebooted - Darn! [Actually didn't exactly say
that,
> but you get the drift.] Couldn't log on as Administrator - "System
Settings
> deny local log on" message popped up, strange I thought. Well, from bitter
> experience I had already configured a backdoor admin account and I could
> logon with that.  I checked the Admins Groups, Permissions, GPO's and even
> ran ntrights.exe - all seemed OK. I found that I could log on to the
domain
> as Admin from a workstation, and also Logon as Admin via Terminal
Services.
> The event Logs show nothing untoward except there's a slightly worrying
> message about NTFRS starting... normally I get the acknowledgement that it
> has started but not this time - could be a red herring of course. So,
before
> I wipe this install and put it all down to experience - any ideas out
there?
> Cheers
> Norm Hughes
>
>


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